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Zika Mosquito Sites In Miami Dade Florida Identified


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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 10:59 AM

Zika mosquito sites in Miami Beach identified

 
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Miami-Dade releases Zika-positive trap locations

MIAMI (AP & WSVN) — Miami-Dade County officials have released the locations of mosquito traps that captured Zika-positive insects in Miami Beach.

“As I have stated many times before, Miami-Dade County remains committed to the health and safety of our residents and visitors, and to absolute transparency in our communications with the community we serve,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez.

Mosquitoes trapped at five locations on Miami Beach tested positive for Zika. Each location tested positive only once; subsequent tests conducted on mosquitoes trapped at these locations yielded negative results. Immediately after notification of the positive test results at each location, Miami-Dade Mosquito Control responded and treated the respective properties and surrounding areas, as per the county’s standard protocol.

Click here to see a list of the locations, number of pools of mosquitoes sent in and the dates the positive mosquitoes were trapped for testing.

“The Department of Health instructed the County, on multiple occasions, to withhold information related to the exact location of the Zika-positive mosquito traps.  Now that the County has been granted permission – via an email from the Florida Surgeon General – to release this information, we are releasing the addresses.  This will be our protocol going forward: We will disclose the locations of any such traps that test positive for Zika to both the property owner and to anyone else who inquires.  It is also important to note that while we did have five traps that tested positive for Zika on dates ranging from August 22 to September 9, multiple subsequent tests have since been conducted, and all of those tests came back negative,” a news release said Wednesday.

County officials made the announcement Tuesday evening after Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Surgeon General Celeste Philip agreed that Miami-Dade can release the trap locations. Earlier that day, Gimenez sent a letter to the state Health Department saying he would release the locations unless state health officials prohibited the action in writing by Wednesday afternoon.

But both the state and county had previously refused to disclose the locations, arguing the records were exempt from public records law because they were part of an epidemiological investigation.

“We are grateful to the residents who allowed us to place the mosquito traps on their properties,” Mayor Gimenez said.  “We continue to remind residents how important it is to continue to ‘Drain and Cover’ to reduce the population of mosquitoes and the spread of diseases in the county.”

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